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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: privileged user in RedHat
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:26:01 -0400
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On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:50:18 -0400, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

> Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>> On 9/1/24 02:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> I think it’s configurable.
>> Yep.
>>
>> It's been configurable on every system that I've cared to look at in the
>> last 25 years.
>>
>> System defaults are usually quite sufficient.
>
> As far as the kernel is concerned, there is only one 'special' userid,
> zero, which denotes the root user.
<snip rest>

The question was not about privileged as far as the kernel is concerned, but
about privileged user's on redhat linux systems.

In a redhat linux system, login.defs defines the uid min/max for system users,
which are the only users that are allowed (have the privilege) to increase the
priority of their processes.

Regards, Dave Hodgins